Stage 2 - Determine Acceptable Evidence.


Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form): (T)
Goal: To create a short film/trailer/PSA about how industrialization has negatively affected a local community.
Role: A Filmmaker
Audience: PBS's board of directors who will review short films/trailers/PSA's to decide if it will air on television and help broadcast the need to impact change in a local community.
Situation: You are deciding what example of industrial/local community impact you will report on based off of topics we have discussed over the course of the unit. If a unique example is desired, discuss it with me first.
Product/Presentation: You will create a video detailing the negative effects of industrialization in a certain community in order to create support to help a real local community.
Standards (Criteria from both rubrics - product and presentation): Video: Teamwork 15%, Concept 20%, Content 25%, Audio 15%, Video 15%, Outline 10% Oral Presentation: Respect 10%, Preparedness 25%, Stays on Topic 15%, Time-Limit 10%, Delivery 25%, Enthusiasm 15%.
Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):
Other Evidence (OE)
I-Movie: Produce a video of how industrialization has negatively effected a local community
Google Earth/Draw Tool: Draw maps of different regions that include political and physical features
Google Docs: Research report on how rising sea levels has affected a local community since industrialization
Glogster: Create a interactive poster about how to counter-act rising CO2 levels
Comic Life: Create a comic life about the impact of Somialian migration to areas in Maine like Lewiston and Portland
Presi: Be aware of geographic processes and their effect on far-reaching communities.
Student Self-Assessment and Reflection
Self-Assessment (SA)
Pre-Assessment: Will be delivered with choices that appeal to MI's
Checking for Understanding: Word sort, quick write, timed pair share, handprint, 4-3-2-1 scoring scale, example/non-example
Timely Feedback: Self, Peer, Teacher

Assessment Task Blue Print



What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task? (G)
Understanding
Goal (MLR)
• Geographic processes in local communities may have global impacts
• The study of geography helps to better predict the consequences of human interaction at the local, state, national, and global level.
• Societal changes impact the physical and cultural environment.
• Students understand the geography of the United States and various regions of the world and the effect of geographic influences on decisions in the present and future.

What criteria are implied in the standard(s) understanding(s) regardless of the task specifics? What qualities must student work demonstrate to signify that standards were met?
Big Ideas
Big Ideas
• Geography/Social Studies
• Culture, society, geographical evolution, social/cultural change, industrialization

Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?
Task Description: (T)
You are becoming filmmakers in charge of shedding light on how industrialization has affected a local community. You will be communicating their message to PBS''s board of directors who will decide whether or not to help raise awareness of this issue. Students will decide what societal issue to cover based on discussions of topics we have already covered throughout the course of the unit. Students will also be given the option of researching their own societal issue as long as the topic is cleared with me first. They will also understand the standards by which they will be graded when they receive a rubric detailing the main points of focus.

What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?
Type II Product
Type of Presentation
• I-Movie
• Oral Presentation

By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?
Product Criteria
Presentation Criteria
• Teamwork 15%
• Concept 20%
• Content 25%
• Audio 15%
• Visual 15%
• Outline 10%
• Respect 10%
• Preparedness 25%
• Stays on Topic 15%
• Time Limit 10%
• Delivery 25%
• Enthusiasm 15%
2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe